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We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by hoaw »

londons_explore wrote: post #78
rwz wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At my first job in US I had about a year and a half of unused PTO accumulated. I gave my two week notice like a good team player I was and then left on the agreed upon date. I obviously didn't get any of the PTO paid to me and in retrospect realize that I could have just taken my last two weeks off with the same outcome. I was so sure that there must be some law that would force employer to pay out unused PTO, that I…

How does one accrue a year and a half of paid time off? Don't most companies cap it at 5 days or something?

Presumably what is meant is PTO accrued over a year and a half of working, which would most likely mean a couple of weeks of PTO.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by Overtonwindow »

pointillistic wrote: post #10

The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?

No you’re absolutely right. Do as they say not as they do.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by tomhoward »

adventured wrote: post #48
jds375 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because not every employee was complicit in that....... And those that weren’t most definitely DO deserve their PTO. The problem is when you say “same people” you’re just lumping everyone together and implying everyone at Buzzfeed news was trying to run articles that ruins a person’s life forever. That’s what you’re missing.

> Because not every employee was complicit in that... Companies like Amazon frequently get skewered for a single sensational negative event at one of their warehouses. That one negative event is then extrapolated and taken to mean it's very common (thousands of their employees are forced to piss in bottles), with zero evidence to support that premise. Why should BuzzFeed and its employees not get to enjoy the media p…

> Why should BuzzFeed and its employees not get

Because we're meant to learn as children that that's a dangerous and counter-productive path to go down.

If we're actually serious about expecting people to live up to the standards we're arguing for, we need to be willing to live up to them ourselves.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by andrew_ »

born_a_beetle wrote: post #38

read your contract when you get hired, people. You shouldn't expect anything more than what's guaranteed right there in front of you.

This. Right on the money. Got absolutely clobbered for saying the same thing in a different way - this situation is a hard, abject lesson in read-what-you-sign.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by dagw »

solarkraft wrote: post #43

A company does no more than what's required by the law. I'm not sure I can get upset about that.

Do you extend this sentiment to people as well? Or do you sometimes get upset when people do evil or immoral thing that technically stays on the right side of the law?

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by solarkraft »

dagw wrote: post #87
solarkraft wrote: post #43

A company does no more than what's required by the law. I'm not sure I can get upset about that.

Do you extend this sentiment to people as well? Or do you sometimes get upset when people do evil or immoral thing that technically stays on the right side of the law?

I do if I don't know or trust them. Of course I can dislike those people and stop my dealing with them, but I can't really be surprised they're doing something they're allowed to do.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Post by onetimemanytime »

gerbal wrote: post #31

Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.

Another company tried that: "News workers unionized. Days later, they were jobless. Was it payback?" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/04/dnainfo-goth...
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